Rise of the Empire Total War

When Richard talked with Lawrence, he realized that things were not as difficult as he imagined, but even more difficult.

Although out of the king's obligation to protect the safety and interests of his vassals, Lawrence will call on the nobles of the entire kingdom to provide troops to join the war, and he will also send troops to join the war, but under the restraint of the Bundak faction, what the royal family can provide Not much help.

In other words, Richard can only rely on his own strength and a small amount of assistance to meet the Ramirez who are besieging Leuven City.

He had some headaches. He thought he could rely on the power of the kingdom to gain an advantage, but he didn't expect his support to be so weak. In the end, he still had to rely on himself.

Perhaps seeing Richard's troubles, the new king Lawrence sighed, and said helplessly: "I have no choice, Bundak's power has almost affected half of the kingdom, and before he was overthrown, the power of the royal family was almost Like a lion that has lost its sharp teeth, Kong has a terrifying appearance, but in fact has no matching force."

"If I remember correctly, Bundak's fiefdom is to the west of Leuwen City." Richard didn't think so, he analyzed: "Once the Ramirez army breaks through Leuwen City, the next step will be to attack the city of Leuven." Ke Ling, if Bandak doesn't want the flames of war to be ignited in his fief, he can only send troops to assist us."

"But there are other possibilities." Adelaide, the military chief on the side, said: "The first possibility is that the goal of the Ramirez people is to take back the three counties that we occupied four years ago. The second possibility is ..." Speaking of this, he hesitated for a moment, but said: "The second possibility is that the Ramirez people and Bandak have reached some kind of agreement, and the common enemy of this agreement is us."

"Bundak will make a deal with the Ramirez people? Are you kidding me?"

Not only Lawrence didn't believe it, Richard also didn't believe it. In the war four years ago, Bundak's performance was not insignificant. His military exploits proved that it was impossible for the Ramirez people to stand with him , after all, it was blood feud.

However, the reality is that Richard, Lawrence and others were severely slapped a few times. Under the lobbying of Prince Ramirez Croft, Bandak, who was coveting the throne, thought about it for a long time. Almost agreed to the proposal made by the former enemy.

The price paid for accepting this proposal is really a drop in the bucket for Bandak. The Ramirez people did not ask him to openly rebel against the kingdom and assist them in fighting against the Ravana Kingdom's counterattack, but only asked Bandak not to send troops during the war Interfering, his allies are not interfering.

In exchange, the Ramirez people are willing to send troops to assist Bandak when Bandak launches a declared war and assist him in regaining the throne.

After reaching a secret agreement with Croft, Bundak didn't want to watch the development of the war honestly. He sent his cronies to contact his allies in the kingdom and asked them to mobilize the soldiers in the territory to prepare for the war. He also mobilized all the currently available soldiers.

These are things for later. When Prince Ramirez Croft returned to the barracks outside Leuven, the siege was still going on. The degree of resistance of the Leuven defenders was beyond King Oweko's expectations. During these days of siege, although his soldiers They were able to climb the city wall every time, but in the end they were basically repulsed after paying heavy casualties. A large number of soldiers died on the not-so-high city wall of Luwen City. The stone city wall was like a meat grinder, strangling and killing the soldiers on the attacking side.

Not only the army of the attacking side suffered heavy losses, but the defending side also suffered from the reduction of the army. Even though the soldiers commanded by Maximilian held fast to the solid stone wall, the casualties caused by the soldiers in hand-to-hand combat with the enemies who climbed the wall still made them feel pressured when they were already at a disadvantage.

At the beginning of the siege, Governor Maximilian still had a team of foot feudal knights, a team of mail knights, eight spear militias, and five crossbow militias under the command of Governor Maximilian.

Although the most elite feudal knights on foot and the useless chain cavalry suffered no casualties, the spear militia and crossbow militia who served as the main defensive force had already suffered heavy casualties.

The most intuitive manifestation of the heavy casualties is the number on the battle report held by Maximilian. At the beginning of the war, there were still 896 spear militiamen who could participate in the battle, and now there are 485 left, including dozens of soldiers. A seriously injured soldier, in the Middle Ages when sanitary conditions and medical conditions were like hell, serious injuries were generally sentenced to death.

At the beginning, the total number of crossbow militiamen was 450, and now there are 302 left. This is due to the fact that the task of the crossbow militiamen is only to shoot at the enemy from a distance. Before long, they will be routed by the enemy.

Apart from the casualties of the soldiers, there was no other danger in Luwen City. The food stored in the city was enough for the soldiers to last for a hundred days, and the crossbow-bearing militiamen still had plenty of crossbow bolts for shooting. To quote from a certain longevity game, they can even defend the solid walls of Luwen City until they die of old age!

"attack!"

After reaching an unreliable agreement with Bundak, the big worry, King Oweko was relieved, and with his order, the army besieging the city launched a fierce attack on the strong city wall again. In addition to attacking from the pontoon bridge, part of the Ramirez army crossed the river from a distance a few days ago, and went around the other walls of Luwen City to attack.

The Ramirez people who launched an attack from flat land were not only equipped with ladders, but also equipped with tall siege towers. The two siege towers hurriedly made were full of soldiers, and they slowly approached the city wall. The crossbow bolts fired with armor-piercing effects failed to break through the defense of the siege tower and threaten the enemies inside, so they could only watch them approach the city wall.

"Get ready to fight, rush out as soon as the suspension bridge is lowered, and jump into the city wall!"

Inside the siege tower, Officer Ramirez said to the tense-looking soldiers behind him. From his trembling hand holding the sword, it could be seen that the officer was equally nervous. Not long after he finished speaking, the siege tower stopped in front of the city wall, and then the drawbridge was lowered and slammed heavily on the wall. The Ramirez soldiers hiding in the siege tower rushed to the city wall. However, to meet them It is not only the defenders who are waiting in full battle, but also the crossbow-wielding militiamen with their fingers on the triggers!

"shooting!"

Accompanied by the officer's stern roar, the crossbow-bearing militiamen pulled the trigger together, and the deadly crossbow bolts were fired immediately, flying towards the enemy who had just charged up the suspension bridge. The first batch of Ramirez soldiers on the suspension bridge suffered heavy losses immediately. They either lay on the bridge and struggled in pain, or fell directly from the siege tower several meters high and fell heavily to the ground.

The tragic siege battle has begun again!